# Deaths in April 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## April 2002
### 1

* Albert F. Canwell, 95, American politician and anti-communist.
* Tonino Cervi, 72, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
* Simo Häyhä, 96, Finnish sniper during World War II.
* James Karales, 71, American photographer and photo-essayist.
* K. V. Narayanaswamy, 78, Indian musician.
* John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.

### 2

* Levi Celerio, 91, Filipino composer and lyricist, and National Artist of the Philippines.
* Vladimir Cernik, 84, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
* Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager.
* Jack Kruschen, 80, Canadian actor (The Apartment, The War of the Worlds, Webster).
* John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author who coined the term "transistor", pneumonia.
* Betty Jane Rase, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke.
* Henry Slesar, 74, American author, playwright, and copywriter.
* Shigeo Sugimoto, 75, Japanese football player.
* Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician, and one of the founders of model theory.

### 3

* Heinz Drache, 79, German film actor, lung cancer.
* Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter, heart attack.
* Roy Huggins, 87, American novelist and television producer (Maverick, The Fugitive, The Rockford Files).
* Norm Lee, 81, Australian politician.
* Bobby Managoff, 84, Armenian-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
* Roy Nichols, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Ernst Stojaspal, 77, Austrian football player, heart failure.
* Karl Swanson, 101, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).

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* Leo Brooks, 54, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals), esophageal cancer.
* Leo Laakso, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
* Pierre Marchand, 62, French publisher, cancer.
* Joe Massot, 69, American writer and film director.
* Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, 66, Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar.
* Jack Tanuan, 36, Filipino basketball player, kidney failure.
* Charles Winquist, 57, American theologian.

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* Herbert A. Cahn, 87, German-Swiss archaeologist, numismatist and antiquities-dealer.
* Paul Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants).
* Bargil Pixner, 81, Italian-American monk, biblical scholar and archaeologist.
* Sheriff Robinson, 80, American baseball player.
* Layne Staley, 34, American singer (Alice in Chains), drug overdose.
* Ben Warley, 65, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets, Anaheim Amigos), liver cancer.
* Kim Won-gyun, 85, North Korean composer and politician, heart failure.

### 6

* Silvia Derbez, 70, Mexican film and television actress, lung cancer.
* Petru Dumitriu, 77, Romanian novelist.
* Oliver Eggimann, 83, Swiss football player.
* Kevin Kelley, 59, American drummer (Rising Sons, The Byrds, Fever Tree).
* Ralph J. Marino, 74, American lawyer and politician from New York.
* Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress, aortic aneurysm.
* Martin Sperr, 57, German dramatist and actor.
* Tom Sunkel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Judith Wood, 95, American film actress.

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* John Agar, 81, American actor, starred in Western and Sci-Fi movies, first husband of Shirley Temple, pulmonary emphysema.
* Bobby Astyr, 64, American pornographic film actor.
* Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, 70, Indian politician, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
* Georges van Coningsloo, 61, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer, lung cancer.

### 8

* Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal, professional head of the British Army (Chief of the General Staff).
* Eloy Fominaya, 76, American composer, music educator, conductor, violinist and luthier (Augusta Symphony).
* María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, 88, Mexican film star, considered "the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema", heart attack.
* Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
* Harvey Quaytman, 64, American painter, cancer.
* Francisco Zamora Salinas, 63, El Salvador football player.
* Josef Svoboda, 81, Czech artist and scenic designer.
* Laurel Rose Willson, 60, American author and con artist.

### 9

* Dorothy Love Coates, 74, American gospel singer, considered one of gospel's great performers.
* Harold Coates, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1965–1976).
* Thomas Dinger, 49, German drummer, singer and songwriter.
* Roy Dwight, 69, English footballer.
* Pat Flaherty, 76, American professional racecar driver, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.
* Weldon Irvine, 58, American composer, playwright, poet, and pianist, suicide by gunshot.
* Kazuo Nakamura, 75, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor.
* Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician, World War I veteran, and supercentenarian.

### 10

* Haim Cohn, 91, Israeli jurist and politician.
* Ed Fleming, 68, American professional basketball player (Niagara University, Rochester Royals, Minneapolis Lakers).
* Géza Hofi, 75, Hungarian humorist.
* Atanda Fatai Williams, 83, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria (1979–1983).

### 11

* Elmer Angsman, 76, American gridiron football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Cardinals) and football color commentator, heart attack.
* Branko Bauer, 81, Croatian film director.
* William Brandon, 87, American author, wrote on Native Americans and the American West.
* Bubba Brooks, 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, a member of Bill Doggett's ensemble.
* Héctor Rojas Herazo, 81, Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.
* Delphi Lawrence, 76, English actress.
* Do Mau, 85, Vietnamese officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
* J. William Stanton, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district).
* Stanley Weston, 82, American publisher, sportswriter, artist and photographer, cancer.

### 12

* Hans Neurath, 92, Austrian-American biochemist and academic.
* Gabriel Raksi, 63, Romanian football player.
* Yadollah Sahabi, 97, Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.
* Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, 87, Indian communist leader, Parkinson's disease.
* George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.
* Safet Zhulali, 59, Albanian Minister of Defence.

### 13

* Alex Baroni, 35, Italian singer, traffic accident.
* Scipio Colombo, 91, Italian dramatic baritone.
* Ivan Desny, 79, Russian-Swiss film actor-, appeared in more than 150 films, pneumonia.
* Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater.
* Oreste Piccioni, 86, Italian-American physicist.
* Álvaro Salvadores, 73, Chilean-Spanish basketball player.
* Vlajko Stojiljković, 65, Serbian politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Desmond Titterington, 73, British racing driver from Northern Ireland.

### 14

* Edmée Abetel, 79, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1952 Winter Olympics women's slalom).
* Buck Baker, 83, American stock car race driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
* Gustave Blouin, 89, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).
* Mark Ermler, 69, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra).
* Joop Haex, 90, Dutch politician.
* Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
* Monal, 21, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
* Fausto Radici, 48, Italian alpine skier, suicide by gunshot.

### 15

* Sándor Gáspár, 85, Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist.
* Moe Keale, 62, American musician of Hawaiian music, and actor, heart attack.
* Dave King, 72, English comedian, actor and singer.
* Damon Knight, 79, American science fiction author, editor and critic.
* Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
* Ram Singh Thakur, 87, Indian freedom fighter, musician and composer.
* Byron White, 84, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, pneumonia.

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* Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer.
* Ramiro de León Carpio, 60, Guatemalan politician, diabetic coma.
* Janusz Kasperczak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer.
* Claudio Slon, 58, Brazilian jazz drummer, lung cancer.
* Marcel Stern, 80, Swiss competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
* Robert Urich, 55, American actor (Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, Lonesome Dove, S.W.A.T.), cancer.
* Hugh Franklin Waters, 69, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas).
* Herbert Wernicke, 56, German opera director and set and costume designer.

### 17

* James Copeland, 83, Scottish actor (The 39 Steps, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes).
* Betsy Curtis, 84, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
* Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor.
* Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.

### 18

* Mitsos Dimitriou, 54, Greek football player.
* Jerry Heidenreich, 52, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion, suicide by drug overdose.
* Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist, brain cancer.
* Wayne Hightower, 62, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
* Wahoo McDaniel, 63, American gridiron football player and wrestler, complications from diabetes and kidney failure.

### 19

* William E. Barber, 82, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, bone marrow cancer.
* Alberto Beltrán, 79, Mexican painter, engraver and political cartoonist.
* Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, 61, French football player and manager.
* Reginald Rose, 81, American film and television writer, complications of heart failure.
* Ross Whicher, 84, Canadian politician and businessman (member of Parliament representing Bruce, Ontario).

### 20

* Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Alan Dale, 76, American singer ("Heart of My Heart", "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White").
* Joe Geri, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Sarvepalli Gopal, 78, Indian historian, renal failure.
* Stig-Göran Johansson, 58, Swedish ice hockey player.
* Pierre Rapsat, 53, Belgian singer-songwriter, cancer.

### 21

* Sam Dente, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).
* Thomas Joseph Grady, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Verné Lesche, 84, Finnish speed skater.
* Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, 65, Afghan politician and mujahideen leader.
* Red O'Quinn, 76, American professional football player (Wake Forest, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Ogden Phipps, 93, American stockbroker, thoroughbred horse racing owner/breeder and philanthropist.
* Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.

### 22

* Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.
* Janet Fox, 89, American actress (Stage Door, Dinner at Eight).
* Soja Jovanović, 80, Serbian and Yugoslav film director.
* Linda Lovelace, 53, American porn star turned political activist, car crash.
* Fran Minkoff, 87, American lyricist.
* Allen Morris, 92, American historian.
* Christopher Price, 34, English journalist and presenter, meningoencephalitis.
* Victor Weisskopf, 93, Austrian-American theoretical physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.

### 23

* Bob Baker, 75, American heavyweight boxer.
* Bob Faught, 82, American professional basketball player (University of Notre Dame, Cleveland Rebels).
* Sam Francis, 88, American football player (Nebraska, Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers) and coach, and Olympic shot putter.
* Ted Kroll, 82, American professional golfer, won eight PGA Tour events, Parkinson's disease.
* Tibor Simon, 36, Hungarian football player and manager, blunt trauma.

### 24

* Gloria Escoffery, 78, Jamaican artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist.
* Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 67, American journalist, essayist and memoirist, COPD.
* Eric McKitrick, 82, American historian.
* Robert McQueeney, 83, American actor.
* Lucien Wercollier, 93, Luxembourgish sculptor.
* Nadezhda Zhurkina, 81, Russian radio operator and gunner during World War II.

### 25

* Michael Bryant, 74, British actor (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, The Stone Tape, The Ruling Class, Gandhi).
* Mario Casilli, 71, American photographer.
* Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars".
* Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, 30, American singer and member of girl group TLC, car crash.
* Athanasios Papoulis, 81, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.

### 26

* Vincenzo Caianiello, 69, Italian jurist.
* Alton Coleman, 46, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
* John Davis, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Del Sharbutt, 90, American radio announcer.
* Tore Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper.
* Steve Tshwete, 63, South African politician and activist, pneumonia and liver failure.

### 27

* Guila Bustabo, 86, American concert violinist.
* George Alec Effinger, 55, American science fiction writer (When Gravity Fails, "Schrödinger's Kitten").
* Ruth Handler, 85, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll, colorectal cancer.
* Robert L. Joseph, 79, American theatre producer, playwright, and screenwriter.
* Arthur Owen, 87, British racing driver (born 1915).
* Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector, cardiovascular disease.
* Felix Villars, 81, Swiss-American emeritus professor of physics at MIT.
* Jerry Witte, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).

### 28

* Albert Béchard, 79, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons for Bonaventure, Quebec).
* Robert M. Gagné, 85, American educational psychologist.
* Alexander Lebed, 52, Russian general and politician, aviation accident.
* Peter Parker, 77, British businessman.
* Liu Qiong, 88, Chinese film director and actor, liver cancer.
* Lou Thesz, 86, American professional wrestler, complications caused by triple bypass surgery.
* John Wilkinson, 82, American sound mixer (Platoon, Saturday Night Fever, Days of Heaven), Oscar winner (1987).
* Gordon Willey, 89, American anthropologist, known for creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies".

### 29

* Bob Akin, 66, American businessman and professional race car driver (two-time Sebring winner).
* Sune Andersson, 81, Swedish football player and manager (gold medal winner in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Sverre Bratland, 84, Norwegian military leader and commander during the invasion of Normandy during World War II.
* Michael Camille, 44, English art historian, specializing in art of the European Middle Ages, brain tumor.
* Noel DaCosta, 72, Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor.
* Santiago Álvarez Gómez, 89, Spanish communist politician.
* Ihar Hermianchuk, 41, Belarusian journalist and political activist, cancer.
* Pete Jacobsen, 51, English jazz pianist.
* Stan Lynn, 73, English football player.
* Lor Tok, 88, Thai comedian and actor.

### 30

* Kathryn Albertson, 93, American philanthropist.
* Howard Alvin Crum, 79, American botanist, expert on North American bryoflora.
* Ida Engel, 98, American actress, television commercial star in her 90s.
* Leslie Melville, 100, Australian economist, academic and public servant.
* Robert Mosley, 74 or 75, American bass-baritone.
* Nitsa Tsaganea, 100, Greek actress of theatre and film.
* Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, 74, German LGBT writer and museum director, heart attack.